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Part of these collections: Folk, Holiday, Medieval.

Customers who bought Shira Kammen also bought: Jami Sieber, Magnatune Compilation, Daniel Ben Pienaar, Tim Rayborn, DJ Cary, Rob Costlow, Shiva in Exile,

"Music of Waters" by Shira Kammen is the 36th best selling album of all time (20th this month). It is the 2nd best selling World album of all time (5th this month). It is the 1st highest valued album this month.

"The Castle of the Holly King" by Shira Kammen is the 9th best selling Folk album of all time.

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Shira Kammen: early folk and celtic music.


A Celebration of Robert Burns
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Mistral
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Music of Waters
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Ragged, Rent and Torn
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The Almanac
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The Castle of the Holly King
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artist photo Shira Kammen received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans.

A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips.

She has performed and taught in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel, Morocco and Japan, and on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira happily collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and performs now with several new groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a new music group, Ephemeros; an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea; and Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany.

Shira can also be heard on the Magnatune recording by John Fleagle and with Pam Swan.